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Consumer Group

A set of consumers that share the work of reading a topic, with each partition assigned to one consumer in the group.

Definition

Consumer groups scale reads up to the number of partitions; extra consumers sit idle. Different groups each receive every record independently, which gives publish-subscribe fan-out.

Exam tip

Consumer parallelism is capped by the partition count.

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